March 24th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): As part of its efforts to spread a culture of tolerance and inclusivity in line with the Year of Tolerance, Abu Dhabi University (ADU) hosted an International Day for the ADU community to celebrate diversity and promote exchange and understanding between different nationalities. With more than 14 different countries...
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Patriarchy and its effects in Africa
“Why is she driving the car? Can’t she give her husband the car to drive?” These were the words that came out of my six-year old sons mouth some years back while we were going out to see a relative. It was not his first time seeing women drive and so I wondered where his...
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Combating Child Abuse: Inside a Child Rescue Centre
Child abuse is the main form of violence against children globally. According to Childhelp, more than 3.6 million referrals involving more than 6.6 million children are made to child protection agencies every year. At the heart of child protection are safe places, known as rescue centres, both State-owned and NGOs, where protection officers, social workers,...
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Another medal for UAE at Special Olympics World Games UAE
March 17th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): The UAE’s Hamda Al Hosani will have to make room for another medal in her cabinet after winning gold in the 200m final at Special Olympics World Games. At Dubai Police Stadium today, the 30-year-old sprinter crossed the finish line in an impressive time of 32.14 seconds. Canada’s Eva Bell...
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Women of the Channel
March 8th, 2019 was International Womens Day, a time when the world recognizes the contributions and accomplishments of women across the globe and acknowledges the continuing strides being made toward a more gender-balanced world. Xerox has consistently worked to build a workforce that exemplifies and values diversity at all organizational levels, from its support of women in...
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Women in Finance
Women have long been underserved by the financial advisory sector – but this is now changing. This is the assessment of deVere Switzerland, part of one of the worlds largest independent financial advisory organisations, which recently held the Women in Finance summit in Zurich ahead of International Womens Day today. deVere Switzerland Area Manager, Daniel OLeary, notes:...
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Food For Thought
How does it all start? Stigma around mental illnesses persists in Belarus, a post-soviet country, where every person visiting therapy is considered crazy or schizophrenic. Arina (16 years old) told us about the first time she was called fat. I remember exactly the moment in kindergarten, when a girl just a year older approached me....
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UAE Women in Civil Engineering
March 13th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): The Department of Civil Engineering at Abu Dhabi University (ADU) hosted the 2ndannual fib-UAE Women in Civil Engineering (WICE) Forum. The forum was organized by Dr. Reem Sabouni, Associate Professor and Chair of Women Engineersfib-UAE,and it waspart of the fib-UAE engineering week,held in collaboration with the fibinternational, the fib-UAE...
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Status of Gender Equality
Governments around the world are paying more attention to gender equality but progress is too slow and uneven, and much remains to be done to increase women’s rights, opportunities and participation in public life and senior jobs, according to the OECD. Despite gender equality reforms in many countries, with innovative rules and regulations in many...
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Culture of Equality Is A Powerful Multiplier of Workplace Innovation, Accenture
March 10th, 2019Dubai (UAE): Aworkplace culture of equalityis a powerful multiplier of innovation and growth, according to new research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Published today in the companys Getting to Equal 2019 report,the research found that employees innovation mindsettheir willingness and ability to innovateis six times higher in companies with a robust culture of equality, where everyone...